U.S. citizen Gilman sentenced to 7 years in high-security colony in Voronezh
VORONEZH. Oct 7 (Interfax) - The Central District Court of Voronezh on Monday convicted U.S. citizen Robert Gilman, who was convicted for attacking a police officer in fall 2022, in new cases involving attacks on employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service and an investigator, the court press service told Interfax.
The court found him guilty of committing three new crimes envisaged by the Russian Criminal Code (subjecting an employee of a penitentiary establishment or a detention facility to violence posing no threat to life or health or threatening with violence an employee of a penitentiary establishment or a detention facility in the line of duty) and one count envisaged by the Russian Criminal Code (a threat or violence in connection with the administration of justice committed using violence posing danger to life or health), the press service said.
"It was established that he attacked employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Investigative Committee when he was in a penal colony last year. Gilman was sentenced to seven years and one month in a high-security colony," the press service said.
According to earlier reports, Gilman behaved aggressively and had a conflict with Russian Railways employees while under the influence of alcohol on a train en route from Sukhum to Moscow in January 2022. The man was taken off the train in Voronezh and brought to a police station, where he started kicking a police officer. A court found him guilty of the use of violence posing no threat to life or health against an authority in the line of duty.
In October 2022, the Central District Court of Voronezh sentenced Gilman to 4.5 years in a general-security correctional colony. In May 2023, the Voronezh region's court considered an appeal filed by Gilman's defense lawyers and softened his sentence, reducing his term to 3.5 years.
In spring 2024, the Central District Court of Voronezh started hearing four new criminal cases against Gilman.